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Mike Rivage-Seul is a liberation theologian and former Roman Catholic priest. Retired in 2014, he taught at Berea College in Kentucky for 40 years where he directed Berea's Peace and Social Justice Studies Program. His latest book is "The Magic Glasses of Critical Thinking: seeing through alternative fact & fake news." Mike blogs at
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Sunday, April 30, 2023Williamson & RFK Jr. vs. Biden & Harris = Democracy vs. An Unelected Bureaucracy SUNDAY HOMILY: It's time to support genuine alternatives to old incompetent Joe Biden. Marianne Williamson and RFK Jr. provide them. At the very least, we've got to push to get the three candidates up on the stage for a series of real debates. That's doable. Series: Marianne Williamson for President (28 Articles, 44981 views), Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 266041 views) 
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Sunday, April 23, 2023Are We Meeting the Risen Christ in Russia and China? SUNDAY HOMILY: Are Russia's armed resistance to NATO'S imperial aggression and China's nonviolent extraction of almost a billion people from extreme poverty signs of resurrection and God's presence? Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 266041 views) 
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Sunday, April 16, 2023Communism with Christian Characteristics: China's Good Example SUNDAY HOMILY: China's socialist policies stand more in accord with the spirit of Jesus and the early church than "our" government's neoliberal policies. Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 266041 views) 
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Sunday, March 26, 2023The Hypocrisy of Non-Religious People Regarding Women SUNDAY REFLECTION: A response to a recent OpEdNews posting: "The Hypocrisy of Religious People Regarding Women." 
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Saturday, March 11, 2023"Argentina 1985": Its Untold Story That Oscar Viewers Should Know Too bad this Oscar nominated film did not offer a fuller account of the horrors it depicts. Its omissions obscure hard truths about U.S. history. 
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Sunday, March 5, 2023Marianne Williamson Should Go For Broke As The Peace Candidate SUNDAY HOMILY: For Marianne Williamson to have even the least chance of replacing Joe Biden, she must declare herself THE PEACE CANDIDATE who opposes America's proxy war in Ukraine. Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 266041 views), Marianne Williamson for President (28 Articles, 44981 views) 
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Sunday, February 26, 2023About Ukraine, Even Marianne Williamson Has Sold Out To Imperialism & Conventional Thinking SUNDAY HOMILY: Last week Marianne Williamson published a piece called "The Tragic Conundrum of Ukraine." It uncritically parroted the liberal, neocon, U.S. party line about Ukraine. - anything but the "miraculous" thinking she describes and advocates. Series: Marianne Williamson for President (28 Articles, 44981 views), Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 266041 views) 
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Monday, January 23, 2023"Indecent" Women Doing Liberation Theology Without Underwear: Saints Tina Turner & Chuck Berry According to "indecent" feminist theologians working without underwear, nothing might be more constructively indecent and therefore holy than rock 'n'roll music performed at the liturgies we call "concerts" by "saints" like Tina Turner and Chuck Berry. 
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Saturday, December 24, 2022Christmas: When Religion Is Capitalism and Market Is Our God Sometimes I feel myself almost hating Christmas. Even within my own family, I can't mention Jesus' birth without eyes rolling in my adult children's heads - without being accused of politicizing an otherwise happy holiday. Let's keep Christmas meaningless is the unspoken injunction. 
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Thursday, December 15, 2022Why the U.S. Cannot Compete with China in Africa or Anywhere Else The strictures of neoliberal ideology make the United States incapable of winning ANY competition with China. 
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Thursday, December 8, 2022Islam as Progressive, Reformed Christianity: 10 Reasons We Don't See That Living here in Spain has exposed my Eurocentric miseducation while helping me appreciate the west's profound debt to the prophet Muhammad and his enlightened reform of the Judeo-Christian tradition. 
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Friday, December 2, 2022Anti-Colonial, Decolonized, Universal History (Part II) Far from leading human development in the fields of science, industry, culture, philosophy, and religion, Europeans and their American cousins have been marginal and unoriginal. 
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Sunday, November 20, 2022Beyond Eurocentric Theology: How Jesus Is (and Is Not) the "King of the Universe" SUNDAY HOMILY: Establishing Jesus as the the "King of the Universe" was completely ideological, misleading, and imperial. But there's a better way of understanding his "kingship." 
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Monday, October 17, 2022"Jesus for the Left": It's Not Just Bias A response to the recent OEN article "Jesus for the Left, Jesus for the Right." Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 266041 views) 
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Saturday, October 8, 2022How U.S. Capitalism Works: House Painters That Cover the Earth Western capitalists don't really believe in free market theory. Like mob figures in Scorsese's "The Irishman," they'd rather whack their competitors than improve their product or services. 
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Sunday, September 25, 2022Declaring America "A Christian Nation?" Here's Hoping 60% of Republicans Get Their Wish! SUNDAY HOMILY: If "America" truly became Christian, we'd have to address the issue of hunger on the one hand and extreme wealth on the other. We'd be forced to recognize the truth of liberation theology. 
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Sunday, August 21, 2022What the Unclothed Female Form Reveals about the Great Cosmic Mother - And Ourselves Since prehistoric times the unclothed female form has been recognized as a mostly wordless text revealing humankind's fundamental relationship to the Feminine Divine. 
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Saturday, August 6, 2022Abortion: A Theological Problem -- and Goddess solution SUNDAY REFLECTION: It is far past time to debunk the domineering patriarchal God in favor of the ancient Great Cosmic Mother who frees from patriarchal laws, empowers women as willing co-creators, forgives, appreciates, and rewards. 
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Tuesday, August 2, 2022The Taiwan "Crisis": Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden Belong in Jail Any world leader who creates situations that make nuclear war possible, belongs in prison. ![Economic Hitmen Cartoon [HD] Cartoon animation with John Perkins, author of 'Confessions Of An Economic Hitman', explaining how corporations destroy nations ..., From YouTubeVideos](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ONVcAY2UrQ0/hqdefault.jpg "Economic Hitmen Cartoon [HD] Cartoon animation with John Perkins, author of 'Confessions Of An Economic Hitman', explaining how corporations destroy nations ..., From YouTubeVideos")
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Saturday, July 23, 2022Critical Race Theory: How Much Should You Tell 13-Year-Olds about U.S. Crimes -- & Ukraine? My 13-year-old granddaughter's "service project" in Panama has provided a teachable moment. Despite anti-CRT objections, such opportunities should never be wasted in the name of protecting even young teenagers from the harsh realities of American history. Page 2 of 22 First Last Back Next 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 View All |
